Bottled Water drying up

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Clay Bell)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:19:25 GMT

Like WC Fields once said"I don't drink water, fish fornicate in it"
Clay Bell

RE: Bottled Water drying up (rogerbarrett)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:17:54 GMT

a cheap, easy carbon block filter is what i use to filter water.
an under-the-counter carbon block filter will do the same job and save counter space. these will remove chlorine and contaminants and get the "swimming pool" taste out of water.
read about all that in specifics here
http://www.bestfilters.com/countertop-water-filters.html
and here
http://www.bestfilters.com/under-sink-water-filters.html

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Moss Miller)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:33:20 GMT

It is a good idea to filter tap water to remove the chlorine and other organic (containing carbon) matter that gives the water a bad taste. This is what the bottlers do, and restaurants should do it as well.

Some restuarant water is vile, but then again, they want to sell you beverages. Some areas have so much chlorine in their tap water you can taste it in a "fountain" soda, which is made on premises from tap water...and a huge profit item for restaurants. If so, insist they serve you a bottled drink.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Jimeats)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:01:00 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by leethebard

quote:
Originally posted by Jimeats

I did spring for the Brita water pitcher with a couple of filter cartridges.
The big difference for me is the ammount of water I'm now consuming at home.
It's so handy having it ice cold on my refrigerator door that I find I'm drinking a lot more water than I use to.
Filters can become expensive, but I found a way around that.
So overall a good investment and now I just but the occaisonal cheap case of water for giveaways. Chow Jim

What's "the way around that"??

I'm told you can drill a hole in the filter, empty and rince,
then refill with fresh charcoal used in aquariums then cap it off.
I have yet to try this method, but it makes sence and a lot cheaper.
A neighbor dose it all the time with his filters in his water/ice despencer of his refrigerator. Chow Jim

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Big Ugly Mich)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:05:26 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by MilwFoodlovers
Since our 1993 local bout with Cryptosporidium, Milwaukee's water is second to none. Mrs MFL buys a case of bottled water a year to take while vacationing but otherwise I drink only our tap water.

I wouldn't be too sure after the recent floods. It got to be too much for MMSD, but what Bellicose Belling and His Hypocrite Brigade fail to see, or, more likely, to report is that there's a very simple solution to even this seemingly unsolvable problem.

LET THE PEOPLE WHO MOVED TO THE BURBS TO AVOID MILWAUKEE'S CONFISCATORY TAXES TREAT THEIR OWN SEWAGE INSTEAD OF SENDING IT TO MMSD!!!

One of those people was me, who moved out of Milwaukee after the Brewers' Stay-dium went up, but that was due more to the death of my vote than the tax.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Tedbear)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:52:20 GMT

After using both the Brita system and the Pur system, I can report that Pur-filtered water tastes considerably better than Brita-filtered water. Disagree if you wish, but I believe that Pur is simply a superior product.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (leethebard)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:20:02 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Jimeats

I did spring for the Brita water pitcher with a couple of filter cartridges.
The big difference for me is the ammount of water I'm now consuming at home.
It's so handy having it ice cold on my refrigerator door that I find I'm drinking a lot more water than I use to.
Filters can become expensive, but I found a way around that.
So overall a good investment and now I just but the occaisonal cheap case of water for giveaways. Chow Jim

What's "the way around that"??

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MilwFoodlovers)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:54:21 GMT

Since our 1993 local bout with Cryptosporidium, Milwaukee's water is second to none. Mrs MFL buys a case of bottled water a year to take while vacationing but otherwise I drink only our tap water.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Jimeats)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:24:13 GMT

I did spring for the Brita water pitcher with a couple of filter cartridges.
The big difference for me is the ammount of water I'm now consuming at home.
It's so handy having it ice cold on my refrigerator door that I find I'm drinking a lot more water than I use to.
Filters can become expensive, but I found a way around that.
So overall a good investment and now I just but the occaisonal cheap case of water for giveaways. Chow Jim

RE: Bottled Water drying up (C Turner Joy)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:54:01 GMT

My water tastes like it comes out of a hose. And while that was great when I was a kid dying of thirst after playing in the hot sun all day, now, not so much. This city is supposed to have great water. I wonder why I have hose water?

Anyway, I buy bottled water.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:06:08 GMT

I don't drink water that doesn't come right out of a tap -- unless, of course, I'm camping.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (mayor al)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:10:13 GMT

Our tap water comes from wells located near the Ohio River, downstream from Louisville. It doesn't taste too bad most of the time. However, with my fine sense of taste, and keen color-discrimination vision, I can discern when Buffetbuster (Pittsburg), TJ Jackson (Cincinnati) or Cajun King (Southeast Indiana) are at home and enjoying more than the average amount of Adult Beverages !

RE: Bottled Water drying up (spud)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:09:00 GMT

My customers will absolutely SPAZZ if I dont have cold bottled water for them. Its all about the convenience of it. At an event you can easily sell bottled waters YOU PAID .28 FOR (gotta be super cold) for $4 to $5 and people will all but shake your hand and kiss you on the cheek. Normal day to day I charge a buck and still turn a good profit.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Robearjr)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:46:08 GMT

I buy the bottled stuff as my Baltimore city water is really bad, although the city claims otherwise.

I'm trying to buy more gallon jugs instead of single serve bottles now, mostly because of the cost savings. My wife, however, has a fondness for the individual Fiji waters. Fiji water is probably the most expensive of the mass marketed waters, and considering it is shipped from Fiji, it is considered the least environmentally friendly water.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Big Ugly Mich)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:10:29 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Twinwillow
Jim, I believe it's been proven that "hard" water is beneficial to your health. Something to do with the calcium. Can anyone back me up on this. I've always been led to believe, the "harder" the water, the better it is for you.

That depends. Minerals like lead can make water hard, but for the most part, you get iron and calcium, both of which can cause kidney stones, but are necessary, too.

At church, the water has a rather, uh, de-stink-tive maloderousness, so they buy bottles of water. Most of the bottles are from someone else's tap. In the Navy, we literally used bleach in the drinking water, and it didn't kill me. Yet.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (exsquidao)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:49:30 GMT

We have a home water delievery contract, 3 5 gal. bottles and three cases of the plastic bottles that I drink at home and take to work, the tap where I live really tastes bad, we do not throw the individual bottles in the trash but in the bi-weekly recycle pick up.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MetroplexJim)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:31:29 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by David_NYC

I have used end-of-faucet water filters for the last 25 years. While NYC tap water is good, I was picking up a lot of sediment from the ancient local water pipes.

I can't blame people who live in areas with terrible-tasting public water supplies. However, for the last generation the restaurant industry has been peddling bottled water to boost income. Also, people fell for the slick advertising of brands like Perrier. Of course, benzene was found in Perrier in 1990, leading to a worldwide recall of the contaminated product.

I would like to suggest that people really determine how lousy their water supply is before buying bottled water.

NYC has the best tap water I've ever tasted. I remember a while back some entrepreneur botted it and marketed it as "New York City Tap Water"!

The City's water system is a largely unappreciated marvel of engineering and architecture. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_system

BTW: the new water tunnel #3 was featured in Die Hard 3.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (David_NYC)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:24:40 GMT

I have used end-of-faucet water filters for the last 25 years. While NYC tap water is good, I was picking up a lot of sediment from the ancient local water pipes.

I can't blame people who live in areas with terrible-tasting public water supplies. However, for the last generation the restaurant industry has been peddling bottled water to boost income. Also, people fell for the slick advertising of brands like Perrier. Of course, benzene was found in Perrier in 1990, leading to a worldwide recall of the contaminated product.

I would like to suggest that people really determine how lousy their water supply is before buying bottled water.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Davydd)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:28:54 GMT

Our water from our little 1,500 community comes from a deep, deep well from the land of sky blue waters (an old Hamm's beer commercial). The taste to me is pure compared to other waters I've tasted. We drank from the tap but with our new refrigerator filtered water and ice cube dispenser it is even better. Other than beer and coffee, I only drink water, no carbonated soft drinks. When we travel in our campervan we fill our 26 gallon water tank with a clean garden hose we carry in the camper but we also fill several containers with our filtered water for drinking and coffee. On the road we each keep a re-usable water bottle handy and cool it down in our refrigerator so there is no need to buy any bottled water.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (allyk)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:40:04 GMT

I did use tap water, but I moved last year, and the local water in my town is horrible. I have a cooler service now, and my cooler dispenses hot and cold. I also take water to work because my the water is even worse there. When it comes out of the tap it's either yellow or brown. It's undrinkable and filters don't help.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Big Ugly Mich)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:39:58 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by twinwillow
Jim, I believe it's been proven that "hard" water is beneficial to your health. Something to do with the calcium. Can anyone back me up on this. I've always been led to believe, the "harder" the water, the better it is for you.

Mixed bag. The positive ion of the salts in hard water is iron, potassium, calcium, or other beneficial minerals, but the negative is usually chlorine. Softening water adds sodium and more chlorine, so I won't drink softened water.

Bottled water is often from someone else's tap, so I avoid it.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Twinwillow)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:03:58 GMT

I have an under sink quad filter reverse osmosis system that filters and purifies my drinking water at home. However, click on the link to see how easily we solved our tap water problem at our office.
http://www.filterwater.com/pc-46-12-countertop-water-filter-no-cartridge.aspx

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Twinwillow)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:56:37 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by firecommander3565

In Chicago, they imposed a 5 cent tax on every bottle. This was to help reduce waste. Now I just buy my water outside the city limits, 3 cases at a time saving $3.60... plus taxes are lower in the susburs as well.

Bottled water is better than a pop/soda, we add a little lemoade to it to get our kids to stay away from pop.

I commend your efforts. However, I'm curious. With gasoline prices as they are, does the increased miles you travel warrant these trips to buy water?

RE: Bottled Water drying up (Oneiron339)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:25:46 GMT

Our refrig. filters our water even though our County has some of the best in the country (they've won awards in the national contest), but we still filter the tap water. You'd be surprised at the amount of gunk in the filter after six months. I think most of it is lodged in the pipes. Anyway it is cheaper than buying bottled water. I also think that's the reason we have a drought here in the South - have you ever seen the amount of bottled water residing on the shelves at every store?

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MellowRoast)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:05:56 GMT

I've bought bottled water for years, but am buying a WaterWise distiller. It'll save me at least $284 a year and eliminate the empty bottles. Cheers.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MetroplexJim)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:46:29 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by fabulousoyster

My tap water is full of chlorine you can smell it, I cook with it but never drink it straight from the tap.
We drink Nestle Pure Life bottled.

Fill a vented pitcher from the tap and the chlorine taste & smell will be gone in a few hours.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (fabulousoyster)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:03:15 GMT

My tap water is full of chlorine you can smell it, I cook with it but never drink it straight from the tap.
We drink Nestle Pure Life bottled.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (firecommander3565)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:54:31 GMT

In Chicago, they imposed a 5 cent tax on every bottle. This was to help reduce waste. Now I just buy my water outside the city limits, 3 cases at a time saving $3.60... plus taxes are lower in the susburs as well.

Bottled water is better than a pop/soda, we add a little lemoade to it to get our kids to stay away from pop.

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MetroplexJim)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:50:17 GMT

Frankly, I look at this development as though I were working in an old coal mine and noticed that the canaries had died. Several months ago Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve "created" hundreds of billions in credit availability which the banking system is methodically turning into a trillion or so worth of monetary expansion.

As a result a tsunami of inflation will be hitting us as surely as the Indonesian tsunami hit the east coast of Africa; it'll just take a little time. By this time next year - regardless of the election result - the "misery index" will be "Carteresque".

The truly amusing aspect of this is that the media will blame anything or everything but the Fed. In so doing they will once again emulate that aboriginal tribe that has yet to associate intercourse with childbirth!

Hold on, folks. Sell Starbucks short!

RE: Bottled Water drying up (MiamiDon)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:25:24 GMT

I buy bottled water sometimes because so many down-scale restaurants do not have any beverages without either caffiene or sugar (or both).

We never use it at home, except for post-hurricane consumption.